Hi Christoph, under the hood, things are a bit different than you might think. It's not the ws driver that is new or has changed, it's the fact it is used in X for all pointing devices now. The touchpad-specific input processing is done in the kernel, by a new component of wsmouse(4).
I'm afraid you are out of luck with a Powerbook. The kernel driver for that hardware, ams(4), offers mouse support only, that is, the hardware emulates a mouse and that's all. No extended functionality may be available, apart from things that its firmware might offer in that mode (I have never worked with it). BTW, xorg configuration files in /usr/X11R6/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/ aren't necessarily named "xorg.conf". The files in that directory only need the ".conf" extension, and an old version of 70_synaptics.conf (or an ancient 50_synaptics.conf) would change the driver assignment. Cheers, Ulf On 12/10/2017 05:19 PM, Christoph R. Murauer wrote: > Hello Ulf ! > > Thanks for your answer. > >> I assume that your touchpad is actually running with ws, and that no >> xorg ".conf" file - in /etc or in /usr/X11R6/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/ - >> overrides the default ;-) If that is the case, then > "works-as-before" is a good result, > > Yes, I can confirm, that it is ws. Because I had synclient settings > including tabbing in my .xsession file which had no effect after > upgrading to the last snapshot. No, there is no xorg.conf (see search > results below from my original email). > > I experienced no differences compared to the synaptics driver from > before. > >> I had no intention to break user expectations. > > I know. > >> Maybe you want give it a try on your MacBook, which has MT support ;-) > > Yes, I wait for a new battery (I hope only the battery is died). > Just give me some days. > >> I'm not sure what your comparison is based on. I remember that some >> reviewers were unhappy with the touchpads of the w540 series, >> especially >> because of the button handling. Or do you refer to the fact that >> there >> is no support for "smooth" scrolling? (The classical scroll-method is >> event-based, that is, wheel movements on a mouse - or scroll gestures >> on a touchpad - are translated into a series of button events, which >> is >> coarse compared to coordinate-based scrolling.) > > It is not really a comparison, the experience is like, if I zoom in or > out the zoom steps are bigger. Like if you zoom - lets say in 10% > steps instead of something like 1 or 2% steps. Yes, I readed that > about the touchpad experiences but after I bought it already ;-) > > I will try it with the MacBook as soon as possible and then report a > comparison about that. > > Is the new ws driver also in the macppc port included ? I have no idea > which hardware is in it but maybe I have the chance to try it out on a > G4 PowerBook. > > Regards, > > Christoph > >>> thinkpad-w541# find / -name 'xorg.conf*' >>> /usr/X11R6/man/man5/xorg.conf.5 >>> /usr/X11R6/man/man5/xorg.conf.d.5 >>> /usr/X11R6/share/X11/xorg.conf.d >>> /usr/xenocara/xserver/hw/xfree86/man/xorg.conf.d.man >>> /usr/xenocara/xserver/hw/xfree86/man/xorg.conf.man > > > > > > > >
